Tag: Education & Family News

Loudoun County School Board Votes Not to Release Rape Investigation Report

February 15, 2023
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ASHBURN, Va.—Loudoun County School Board (LCSB) voted on Tuesday night not to release an investigative report about how the school division handled two sexual assaults in May and October 2021. The board voted down the motion 6–3. John Beatty, the board member who initiated the motion, said releasing the report was about “rebuilding trust” with…

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‘Wonderful’ Girl Commits Suicide After Videoed School Beating and Online Taunts From Her Assailants

February 15, 2023
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Adriana Kuch saved a girl from drowning in a swimming pool, her 15-year-old friend Meredith told The Epoch Times. “Adriana was one of the most wonderful people I’ve ever met. We went to grade school together when she first moved here,” Meredith said. “She was awesome. She would do anything for anyone.” On Feb. 1,…

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Central Texas School District Fights to Save Students From Fentanyl Poisoning

February 15, 2023
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One Central Texas school district has waged war against fentanyl, a deadly illicit drug that is infiltrating nearly every town across the country. After two Hays Consolidated Independent School District (HCISD) students died within weeks of each other from fentanyl poisoning, district leaders knew they had to do everything possible to save the children. “We…

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Ohio Proposes Law Mandating Parental Consent for Children to Access Online Platforms

February 15, 2023
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Ohio’s Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is proposing a new law that would require certain online services to obtain permission from parents before allowing kids to use their platforms, insisting that such measures are necessary to protect children from harmful content. The “Social Media Parental Notification Act” requires online companies to create a method to determine…

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New Jersey to Expand AP African American Studies Classes

February 14, 2023
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Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) announced on Tuesday that AP African American Studies classes will be expanded to 26 schools in New Jersey for the 2023–24 academic year. The course was introduced in 60 high schools across the United States this year as part of a two-year pilot program, with one of them located in New Jersey. Murphy…

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4 Years of Math Better Prepares Students for College: UCLA Study

February 14, 2023
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Students who take a fourth year of math in high school are 5 percent more likely to enroll and persist in college than their peers who don’t, according to a UCLA study of students in the second largest school district in the U.S.—Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)—published last month. The study—which tracked 45,000 LAUSD students…

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Chicago Dad Placed on Watchlist After Opposing Pornography in Schools

February 14, 2023
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A Chicago father has learned that he has been placed on a flight watchlist after opposing pornographic materials in his kids’ schools. Over the summer of 2021, Terry Newsome—who described himself in comments to the Epoch Times as a “lifelong Democrat” until recently—was one of several parents in the 99th school district of Downer’s Grove,…

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College Board Says It Made Mistakes in AP African American Course Rollout

February 14, 2023
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The College Board, which develops college-level Advanced Placement (AP) courses for high school students, has admitted to making some mistakes in its rollout of a new high school course on African American Studies that has invited controversy. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opposed an early iteration of the course after the state’s Department of Education…

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ABC’s Coverage of Alice Springs’ Meeting Inaccurate, Partial: ABC Ombudsman’s Office

February 14, 2023
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has violated impartiality and accuracy standards in its radio report on the Alice Springs community meeting, the newly created ABC Ombudsman’s office found. The ABC’s flagship radio program AM on Jan. 31 aired a report in which it accused locals worried about the alcohol-fulled crime wave in the remote community of…

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Excludes Organizations With White CEOs From Grant Program

February 14, 2023
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The leader of a medical watchdog organization is calling Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina’s grant program for organizations not run by white people a new level of apartheid. “If ever there was a bad idea, the notion that we should start to separate our country along racial lines is amongst the worst,”…

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